Yep, the economy and stock market maybe booming (& even tech stocks) but the ground reality is quite different. I wonder if this is going to catch up by November at election time.

>[In the first two months of the year alone, PayPal, Cisco, and Amazon, among others, have announced layoffs affecting thousands of workers, a continuation of the mass layoffs from last year. All in all, nearly 300,000 workers in the tech industry have lost their jobs in the past year, according to Layoffs.fyi.
](https://fortune.com/2024/02/14/tech-jobs-layoffs-benefits-changes-google-amazon-meta-paypal-cisco/)